ch2026 a day ago

> So about three per year, out of 112 million users? That's a far better track record than the Boy Scouts of America or the Roman Catholic Church.

Yep. I’ve not witnessed something so wildly over exaggerated since D&D was responsible for widespread satanic cults in the 80’s.

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crazydoggers a day ago | parent [-]

You’re comparing a hysteria over D&D where no one was actually harmed to actual child sexual abuse being allowed on an online platform?

One of the comments above has a video of a guy arrested and admitting to contacting several kids a day for a year.. that doesn’t sound like just some sort of over exaggerated panic.

> So about three per year, out of 112 million users? That's a far better track record than the Boy Scouts of America or the Roman Catholic Church.

It wasn’t immediate obvious when those were occurring only years later.. so most likely we are seeing the tip of the iceberg.

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ch2026 a day ago | parent | next [-]

> admitting to contacting several kids a day for a year.

Have you ever played online games? "Contacting several kids a day" is how internet chat works. I'm sure if it was up to you kids would only be able to play single player games and stay inside, god forbid they get struck by lightning or eaten by a polar bear.

What do you want gaming to do? Have a checkbox where you swear you're not a pedophile or something? That's on-par for most of these idiotic suggestions of how people seem to fucking think the internet and gaming works, and what sort of actual solution is viable.

Roblox tracks all the chat and hands it over to law enforcement and NCMEC. They restrict chat for . They give ample parental controls to limit chat/friends/interactions. Now they're adding AI-powered age validation (which I think is a terrible idea) just to appease more people like you who can't think critically about the risk, nor apparently have the ability to teach your kids "hey maybe don't talk to creepy strangers who want you to send them images and give them your home address?"

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crazydoggers a day ago | parent [-]

Maybe watch the video. He wasn’t just chatting with them he was sexually abusing them online. He was using Roblox because they made it easy for him. Watch the video.

Your hand waving away is the type of behavior that is complicit in allowing this type of abuse to continue.

And this isn’t just about parents. In one breath you’ll complain about helicopter parents and the next you’ll say it’s the parent’s responsibility to prevent it. The callousness to the suffering of children is disgusting. That’s not just “how the internet works”

This is about not allowing companies to cultivate online spaces specifically enabling this behavior because it makes them money. Your comments indicate you either condone the behavior or work for Roblox or a company like it.

> appease more people like you who can't think critically about the risk

So sexual abuse is not a risk you take seriously?

	▲	ch2026 a day ago \| parent [-]
		> is complicit in allowing this type of abuse to continue. I'm complicit? Get fucked you piece of shit.

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DocTomoe a day ago | parent | prev [-]

> You’re comparing a hysteria over D&D where no one was actually harmed

People were definitely harmed, psychically, and physically - straight up to torture in 'conversion therapies' and death, over the D&D (and related RPG) hysteria.